Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 19:29:02 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514192901.B11078@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000514041442.A58200@sasami.jurai.net>; from mellon@pobox.com on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 04:14:42AM -0400 References: <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> <20000514051118.M22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <391E2C5B.D4EFB077@mail.ptd.net> <20000514093934.10200@techunix.technion.ac.il> <391E5B85.B761FFF6@mindspring.com> <20000514105349.A20904@happy.checkpoint.com> <391E5F5A.A8066271@mindspring.com> <20000514041442.A58200@sasami.jurai.net>
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> > I'd rather ask Linus why his ego made him name it Linux and why he is so > > clueless about revision control. > > Go ahead and ask him. Tell us what he said. These are good questions, > too. Actually it's rather wellknown that Linus originally called it Freix or something like that, and it was the administrator of his FTP site in Finland who called it linux. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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